Stereolab

(1990 – present)

Stereolab is a UK-based band whose style, mixing 1950s-1960s pop and lounge music with the “motorik” beat of krautrock, was one of the first to which the term “post-rock” was applied. They are noted for the use of vintage keyboard instruments like Moog synthesizers and Vox and Farfisa organs. Stereolab is also notable for founding their own record label, Duophonic Records, with a grant from UK charity The Prince’s Trust.

The band is often referred to as “The Groop” by their fans (and in the title of their song “The Groop Play Chord X” on the album Space Age Batchelor Pad Music).

They were founded in 1990 by songwriters Tim Gane (guitar, keyboards), formerly of the band McCarthy, and Laetitia Sadier (sometimes credited as Seaya Sadier; vocals, keyboards, trombone, guitar), who is from france and sings in both English and French.

Over the years, Gane and Sadier have enlisted a large number of other musicians to accompany them on stage and on record. The initial line-up featured Martin Kean, formerly of The Chills, on bass, and Joe Dilworth (from their Too Pure label-mates Th’ Faith Healers) on drums, with Russell Yates (of Moose) and Mick Conroy (ex-Modern English) also appearing at early live shows. In 1993 they recruited Andy Ramsay (drums), who has remained in the group line-up ever since, and Mary Hansen (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion).

Hansen’s distinctive backing vocals became an important aspect of the Stereolab sound, and she remained a regular feature of the line-up until her death in a cycling accident on December 9, 2002.

Artist – Stereolab


Album – Peng!

Release Date – 1992

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Super Falling Star 3:16

2 Orgiastic 4:44


3 Peng! 33 3:03

4 K-Stars 4:04

5 Perversion 5:01

6 You Little Shits 3:25

7 The Seeming and the Meaning 3:48

8 Mellotron 2:47

9 Enivrez-vous 3:51

10 Stomach Worm 6:35

11 Surrealchemist 7:13


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Artist – Stereolab

Album – The Groop Played “Space Age Batchelor Pad Music”


Release Date – 1993

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Avant Garde M.O.R. 4:09

2 Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Mellow) 1:44

3 The Groop Play Chord X 2:01

4 Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Foamy) 2:13


5 Ronco Symphony 3:35

6 We’re Not Adult Orientated 6:07

7 U.H.F. – M F P 4:53

8 We’re Not Adult Orientated (Neu Wave Live) 3:34

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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

Release Date – 1993

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Tone Burst 5:35

2 Our Trinitone Blast 3:47

3 Pack Yr Romantic Mind 5:06

4 I’m Going Out of My Way 3:25

5 Golden Ball 6:52

6 Pause 5:23

7 Jenny Ondioline 18:08


8 Analogue Rock 4:13

9 Crest 6:04

10 Lock-Groove Lullaby 3:38

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Artist – Stereolab


Album – Mars Audiac Quintet

Release Date – 1994

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Three Dee Melodie 5:02

2 Wow and Flutter 3:08


3 Transona Five 5:32

4 Des étoiles électroniques 3:19

5 Ping Pong 3:02

6 Anamorphose 7:33

7 Three Longers Later 3:28

8 Nihilist Assault Group 6:55

9 International Colouring Contest 3:47

10 The Stars Our Destination 2:58

11 Transporté sans bouger 4:20


12 L’enfer des formes 3:53

13 Outer Accelerator 5:21

14 New Orthophony 4:34

15 Fiery Yellow 4:04

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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Release Date – 1996

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Metronomic Underground 7:55

2 Cybele’s Reverie 4:42

3 Percolator 3:47

4 Les Yper-Sound 4:05

5 Spark Plug 2:29

6 OLV 26 5:42

7 The Noise of Carpet 3:05


8 Tomorrow Is Already Here 4:56

9 Emperor Tomato Ketchup 4:37

10 Monstre Sacre 3:44

11 Motoroller Scalatron 3:48

12 Slow Fast Hazel 3:53

13 Anonymous Collective 4:32

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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Dots and Loops

Release Date – 1997

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Brakhage 5:30

2 Miss Modular 4:29

3 The Flower Called Nowhere 4:55

4 Diagonals 5:15

5 Prisoner of Mars 4:03

6 Rainbo Conversation 4:46

7 Refractions in the Plastic Pulse 17:32

8 Parsec 5:34


9 Ticker-Tape of the Unconscious 4:45

10 Contronatura 9:03

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Artist – Stereolab


Album – Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night

Release Date – 1999

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Fuses 3:40

2 People Do It All the Time 3:42


3 The Free Design 3:47

4 Blips, Drips and Strips 4:28

5 Italian Shoes Continuum 4:36

6 Infinity Girl 3:56

7 The Spiracles 3:40

8 Op Hop Detonation 3:32

9 Puncture in the Radax Permutation 5:48

10 Velvet Water 4:24

11 Blue Milk 11:29


12 Caleidoscopic Gaze 8:09

13 Strobo Acceleration 3:55

14 The Emergency Kisses 5:53

15 Come and Play in the Milky Night 4:38

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Artist – Stereolab

Album – The First of the Microbe Hunters

Release Date – 2000

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Outer Bongolia 9:29

2 Intervals 4:38

3 Barock – Plastik 3:00

4 Nomus et Phusis 4:23

5 I Feel the Air (Of Another Planet) 8:13

6 Household Names 3:42

7 Retrograde Mirror Form 6:23


Stereolab – The First of the Microbe Hunters Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com

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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Sound-Dust


Release Date – 2001

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Black Ants in Sound-Dust 1:58

2 Space Moth 7:35

3 Captain EasyChord 5:33

4 Baby Lulu 5:13


5 The Black Arts 5:12

6 Hallucinex 3:55

7 Double Rocker 5:33

8 Gus the Mynah Bird 6:10

9 Naught More Terrific Than Man 4:10

10 Nothing to Do With Me 3:38

11 Suggestion diabolique 7:52

12 Les bons bons des raisons 6:43

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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Margerine Eclipse

Release Date – 2004

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Vonal Declosion 3:33

2 Need to Be 4:50

3 “…Sudden Stars” 4:41

4 Cosmic Country Noir 4:47

5 La demeure 4:36

6 Margerine Rock 2:55


7 The Man With 100 Cells 3:47

8 Margerine Melodie 6:18

9 Hillbilly Motobike 2:22

10 Feel and Triple 4:53

11 Bop Scotch 3:59

12 Dear Marge 6:56

Stereolab – Margerine Eclipse Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com


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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Fab Four Suture

Release Date – 2006

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Kyberneticka Babicka, Pt. 1 4:31

2 Interlock 4:10

3 Eye of the Volcano 4:16

4 Plastic Mile 5:11

5 ‘Get a Shot of the Refrigerator’ 4:23

6 Visionary Road Maps 3:35


7 Vodiak 3:19

8 Whisper Pitch 3:55

9 Excursions Into ‘Oh, A-Oh’ 5:27

10 I Was a Sunny Rainphase 3:27

11 Widow Weirdo 4:30

12 Kyberneticka Babicka, Pt. 2 4:56

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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Chemical Chords

Release Date – 2008

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Neon Beanbag 3:49

2 Three Women 3:46

3 One Finger Symphony 2:05

4 Chemical Chords 5:12

5 The Ecstatic Static 4:44

6 Valley Hi! 2:14

7 Silver Sands 3:08

8 Pop Molecule (Molecular Pop 1) 2:15


9 Self Portrait With “Electric Brain” 3:16

10 Nous vous demandons pardon 4:52

11 Cellulose Sunshine 2:36

12 Fractal Dream of a Thing 3:37

13 Daisy Click Clack 3:28

14 Vortical Phonotheque 3:07

Stereolab – Chemical Chords Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com


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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Low Fi

Release Date – 1992

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Low Fi 5:23

2 (Varoom!) 9:02

3 Laisser-Faire 4:31

4 Elektro (He Held the World in His Iron Grip) 5:45

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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Switched On Stereolab

Release Date – 1992

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Super-Electric 5:23

2 Doubt 3:25

3 Au Grand Jour’ 3:28

4 The Way Will Be Opening 4:07

5 Brittle 3:47

6 Contact 8:17

7 Au Grand Jour 3:40


8 High Expectations 3:32

9 The Light That Will Cease to Fail 3:23

10 Changer 4:54

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Artist – Stereolab


Album – Aluminum Tunes

Release Date – 1998

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

disc 1


1 Pop Quiz 4:22

2 The Extension Trip 3:43

3 How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight 3:58

4 The Brush Descends the Length 3:08

5 Melochord Seventy-Five 3:39

6 Space Moment 4:20

7 Iron Man 3:27

8 The Long Hair of Death 4:48

9 You Used to Call Me Sadness 4:00


10 New Orthophony 6:26

11 Speedy Car 5:00

12 Golden Atoms 5:18

13 Ulan Bator 3:14

14 One Small Step 4:16

disc 2

1 One Note Samba/Surfboard 9:10

2 Cadriopo 3:09


3 Klang Tone 5:36

4 Get Carter 3:23

5 1000 Miles an Hour 4:32

6 Percolations 3:22

7 Seeperbold 5:08

8 Check and Double Check 4:03

9 Munich Madness 3:48

10 Metronomic Underground (Wagon Christ mix) 7:51

11 The Incredible He Woman 3:31


Stereolab – Aluminum Tunes – Discs 1 & 2 Password – SirensSound.blogspot.com

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Artist – Stereolab


Album – Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On, Vol. 2)

Release Date – 1995

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 Harmonium 5:55

2 Lo Boob Oscillator 6:36


3 Mountain 4:05

4 Revox 4:13

5 French Disko 3:35

6 Exploding Head Movie 4:47

7 Eloge D’Eros 3:52

8 Tone Burst (Country) 2:12

9 “Animal or Vegetable (a Wonderfull Wooden Reason…)” 13:32


10 John Cage Bubblegum 3:18

11 Sadistic 2:36

12 Farfisa 2:23

13 Tempter 5:52

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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Instant 0 in the Universe

Release Date – 2003

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

1 “…Suddenly Stars” 4:40

2 Jaunty Monty and the Bubbles of Silence 4:10

3 Good Is Me 5:25

4 Microclimate 4:16

5 Mass Riff 4:25

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Artist – Stereolab

Album – Oscillons From the Anti-Sun

Release Date – 2005

Genre – Indie, Alternative, Electro

Tracklist

Disc One

1 Fluorescences 3:23

2 Allures 3:29

3 Fruition 3:50

4 Wow and Flutter 5:42

5 With Friends Like These 5:50

6 Pinball 3:13

7 Spinal Column 2:53


8 Ping Pong 3:02

9 Golden Ball 6:26

10 Cybele’s Reverie 2:55

11 Nihilist Assault Group 7:12

12 Off-On 5:24

Stereolab – Oscillons From the Anti-Sun – Disc 01 of 03

Disc Two

1 Jenny Ondioline (7″ tour single version) 6:08

2 Young Lungs 6:33

3 Escape Pod (From the World of Medical Observations) 3:57

4 Moodles 7:23

5 You Used to Call Me Sadness 5:10

6 Captain Easychord 2:53


7 Les Aimies des Mêmes 3:55

8 French Disco 4:26

9 Transona Five (live) 5:42

10 Moogie Wonderland 3:34

11 Canned Candies 4:13

12 Narco Martenot 4:23

Stereolab – Oscillons From the Anti-Sun – Disc 02 of 03

Disc Three

1 The Noise of Carpet 3:07

2 The Free Design 3:45

3 Les Yper-Yper Sound 5:18

4 Pain et Spectacles 3:31

5 Ping Pong 3:03

6 Long Life Love 7:06

7 Jenny Ondioline 3:53


8 Heavy Denim 2:49

9 Brigitte 5:46

10 Miss Modular 4:13

11 Soop Groove #1 13:06

Disc Four (DVD)

1 Jenny Ondioline 3:50

2 Ping Pong 3:01

3 Wow and Flutter 3:04


4 Cybele’s Reverie 3:06

5 Fluorescences 3:23

6 Miss Modular 4:14

7 The Free Design 3:48

8 The Noise of Carpet 3:26

9 French Disko (live performance) 3:21

10 Cybele’s Reverie (live performance) 3:43

11 Les Yper-Sound (live performance) 4:12


Stereolab – Oscillons From the Anti-Sun – Disc 03 of 03

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